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Put the Thor back in Thursday! Damn secularists

Really the inaccuracy alone would be a decent reason to prefer BCE/CE over BC/AD even if devout.

BCE/CE at least have the benefit of a consistent language backing them, rather than English for BC and Latin for AD.

maybe we drop one vestigial nod to the middle ages and compromise: BC/YL

What's the inaccuracy? Are you speaking of when Jesus Christ was born? At one point it was based on an estimation of that, but for a long time it has been standardized and isn't related to that anymore. There is a very specific year that is "year 1".

I have a bit of an issue with it because it does seem to endorse a religion, but still.

And that’s why I don’t use that name.